On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 5:36 PM Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > On 3/4/2020 11:44 PM, Weber, Matthias wrote: > >> Dear List, > >> > >> \starttext > >> \startformula > >> \left(f\right)'' = f'' > >> \stopformula > >> \stoptext > >> > >> has the second apostrophe set too low. This is in MKIV on ConTeXt live > as > > well as in my slightly older version. > >> What is the “right” way to typeset a second derivative? > > you have to turn on > > > > \setupmathematics > > [collapsing=3] > > > > but it has the side effect of also collapsing more: > > > > $x'' >= 10$ > > > > (which is why the mechanism is currently turned off by default) > > > > i'll think about an option that only does some specific ones only > > > > (btw, i love tex but these primes are a bit painful due to th eorriginal > > approach which has lead mixtures of (1) raised in the font and/or raised > > in the engine, (2) them being superscripts but not really, (3) fonts > > therefore doing it inconsistently, (4) some parsing related to multiple > > scripts, (5) double, tripple, etc primes being real unicode characters > > but spaced singles in traditional tex (which itself then introduces some > > size juggling) ... i could proabbly write a few pages about it) > > So what's the best way to input them: using \prime, \prime\prime, etc.? > > > Aditya___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > And what is the way if one also want indices: $f''_{xx}$ or $f_{xx}''$ or ... ? I want the indices under the primes /Mikael
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